[Distutils] Self Introduction and Getting Hands On

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 7/3/12 10:12 AM, Alexis Métaireau wrote:
> Le mar. 03 juil. 2012 10:08:07 CEST, Tarek Ziadé a écrit :
>> Yeah so even a 'cleaned up' mirror will not do the trick.  For pip and
>> easy_install, we need a lower-level barrier to avoid hitting the net
>
> Well, if links are removed from the indexes, then the crawler will not 
> try to follow the links, which sounds enough, isn't it? In which cases 
> would an installer hit the external links if it doesn't have a way to 
> discover them?

The scenario I had in mind was:

1. installer downloads Foo-1.2.tgz
2. installer runs Foo's setup.py
3. Foo's metadata mentions http://example.com
4. installer follow that link

But I did not check the code yet

>
> Additionally, distutils2 do have a "follow_links" options that can be 
> set to False (I'm even wondering if thats not the default option)
>
> Alexis
>